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Man Loses Life Savings Playing Carnival Game, Wins Giant Banana

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One man never imagined he would spend his life savings on a giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks.Henry Gribbohm, 30, lost $2600 – his entire savings – on a game called Tubs of Fun at a Manchester, NH., carnival. He wanted to win an Xbox Kinect (retail value of around $100), but quickly lost $300 on the game when the balls he tossed, bounced out of the tubs. Instead of cutting his losses, he went home to get the rest of his savings, which he lost as well in a few rounds of double or nothing.
“You just get caught up in the whole ‘I’ve got to win my money back,’” Gribbohm told CBS. “You’re expecting the kids to win a few things, let the kids have a good time,” Gribbohm said. “It just didn’t turn out that way.”
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The guy could have gone to Home Depot and put together the same carnival game in his backyard, become a pro at it and go back to the carnival the next year and won all the Kinects™.
 
Hey, the banana has dreadlocks so there's a plus!

I love this story so much, on multiple levels. For one thing if this were me I certainly wouldn't want this to be a national story. Why put your idiocy out for everyone to see...though this also explains why he's an idiot.
 
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I'm sure many who played I'm my poker league see this man as a financial genius, me foremost among them.
 
No, this guy really is a genius. He just doesn't know it.

He should go to some entertainment company and rent this banana for bachelorette parties at $300 a night.


uhmmmm....... start his own entertainment company.
 
The real question is- how did he have that much money in savings?
The time share industry needed this customer
 
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I'm sure many who played I'm my poker league see this man as a financial genius, me foremost among them.
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actually, that's probably not too far from the truth...

he went back the next day to complain, and got $600 back PLUS another banana, a rasta one this time

And now the local authorities are investingating the company that runs the carnival for fraud, and this guy may end up with a multi-million dollar judgement once his pain and suffering (not to mention humiliation) are factored in...

I mean, can you imagine how humiliating he must have felt pushing that stroller along the roadway with that giant stuffed banana on top?
 
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